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Lamar Advertising Expands Transit Advertising Coverage in the Bay Area San Mateo County Transit District Awards Five-Year Advertising Contract to Lamar Advertising Company

Baton Rouge, LA – September 27, 2011 – Baton Rouge-based Lamar Advertising Company (NASDAQ: LAMR) will begin handling all advertisements placed on SamTSarans public transit and transportation programs in the San Mateo County area. The SamTrans Board of Directors approved a contract award declaring Lamar Advertising the sales vendor of record for advertising placed on SamTrans buses. The contract begins October 1, 2011, and lasts for five years.

“We are pleased to extend our business relationship with SamTrans public transit and transportation programs,” said Lamar Advertising General Manager Casey Sexton. “We look forward to successful execution of the new contract.”

SamTrans buses serve San Mateo County, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Routes cover most of the San Francisco Peninsula just south of San Francisco, and north of Santa Clara County. Approximately 718,000 people live in San Mateo’s 446 square mile service area. With more than 300 vehicles circulating more than 10MM miles annually, SamTrans service provides Peninsula travelers with hundreds of daily trips along the Bayshore corridor between Palo Alto and downtown San Francisco. Commute service to San Francisco is provided along El Camino Real and Mission Street in the north county. Hundreds of other daily trips serve San Francisco International Airport, Caltrain stations, BART stations and the 20 cities which make up San Mateo County. In addition to expansive market circulation, annual ridership exceeds 15.5MM annually.

Lamar Advertising presently sells transit advertising in Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, located in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Designated Market Area (DMA). San Mateo County coverage via SamTrans increases Lamar’s ability to provide advertising clients with audience reach in the San Francisco DMA, an area where other out-of home advertising options are limited or restricted. The new system expands Lamar Transit’s footprint in the Bay Area to a coverage area exceeding 4 million people.

About Lamar Advertising
Lamar Advertising Company is the nation’s leading outdoor advertising firm. Lamar offers solutions for clients in the form of bulletins, posters, digital billboards, buses, benches, transit shelters and highway logo signs. Founded in 1902, Baton Rouge-based Lamar has a broad corporate reach with over 200 locations across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico specializing in outdoor and transit advertising. In addition, Lamar has 22 locations devoted to the highway logo sign business. This network provides clients with local market insight, as well as the services provided by a firm on a national scale.

About SamTrans
The San Mateo County Transit District is the administrative body for the principal public transit and transportation programs in San Mateo County: SamTrans bus service, including Redi-Wheels paratransit service, Caltrain commuter rail and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority. Caltrain and the TA are contracted with the District to serve as their managing agency, under the direction of their appointed boards.

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